Word: wipe
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...members of President Clinton's Cabinet will note as they watch his State of the Union address on Jan. 25 that one Secretary is missing from the audience. It is a little-known tradition that one Cabinet member does not attend the speech, lest some calamity occur and wipe out everyone in the line of succession to the presidency. There is no rule for how the designee is chosen, but he or she is typically told at the last minute. For too long, the men and women who shoulder this terrible burden have done so in obscurity. Here are some...
...other hand, a specific ban on abatements would wipe out their pernicious effect, but would also preclude their useful application. For example, a town couldn't help a longtime local company through tough times by easing its tax burden temporarily...
...week on Meet the Press, President Clinton pointedly declined to rule out any "specific options" on how he might militarily deal with North Korea's advancing nuclear-weapons program. But Time has learned that Clinton Administration officials have studied -- and dismissed -- the possibility of launching an air strike to wipe out the communist regime's nuclear program. The locations of North Korea's nuclear reactors are known, but analysis has shown they could not be destroyed without releasing unacceptable levels of radioactivity that could spread through East Asia. With the surgical-air- strike option now off the table, diplomatic pressure...
...result, sophomore goaltender Aaron Israel was untested for most of the game, as he faced only 19 shots for the game in posting his first collegiate shutout. At one point during the second period, one of Israel's teammates brought him a towel to wipe his face even though Yale hadn't sent a shot his way in several minutes...
...smell of rotting flesh," he recalls. Not far from the airstrip was a pile of partly dismembered bodies in a shallow mass grave, victims of a local warlord. In some places, Somalis who at first welcomed the Americans became resentful when they realized that the U.S. would not simply wipe out the warlords who were terrorizing them. At the same time, soldiers found themselves in mortal danger whenever they seemed to be taking sides in even the pettiest disputes among rival clans. Sergeant Kevin Anderson, a military-police officer, recalls sitting by in frustration as clan-vs.-clan arguments turned...